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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:00:38. Timecode out: 00:24:00. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Stream crossing ambi. Timecode In: 00:24:02. Timecode out: 00:26:28. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:26:29. Timecode out: 00:34:15. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: David Breashears. Timecode In: 00:34:25. Timecode out: 00:54:19. Notes: Commentary; David Breashears commentary; Mt. Everest. Subject 5: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Hiking, breathing ambi. Timecode In: 00:54:25. Timecode out: 00:57:06. Subject 6: crow/raven sp. (Corvus sp.). Timecode In: 00:57:20. Timecode out: 00:58:40. Subject 7: crow/raven sp. (Corvus sp.). Timecode In: 00:58:41. Timecode out: 00:59:36. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Dual-Channel Mono; Stereo. David Breashears on Everest Log - DAT 4-B Logged by Alex Chadwick. David comments to Carolyn and ed. Notes are in bold. (DAT is labeled 4-B, but David refers to it simply as number 4.) This is Tape Number 4, continuing on from Tengboche monastery, I think we need a link hills to the monastery, and that's what I'm going to try. - 3 attempts at a track, use #2 00100 - The memorials face to the northeast and from their position you can see the summit of Mt. Everest 10 miles away. Much closer and dominating the view up the valley is Ama Dablam, and close by and nestled in the trees is Tengboche monastery. 00118. 0205 - Sometimes you can hear the monks play in ceremonies they perform. 0212 retake all 00230 David direction at 0300 - asks to run track, then bring up music, then go to other earlier stuff on earlier dats to be in monastery, then leave monastery, head back up the trail. David comments on butter urn, thinks it may be necessary to make clear the odd sound of it. 0430 - been on the trail about 4 or 5 hours, just left tree line at about 14,000 feet, and sitting behind a big boulder, looking for a little shelter from the wind. It's a really gusty day today, I feel like I need to sit down and rest for a while because last night was a really tough night. back at Tengboche. It was around midnight and I was awakened by screams and shouts. A woman was screaming, 'bring oxygen, bring oxygen.' And there was such terror in her voice I was completely unnerved and disoriented. The room was absolutely black. I couldn't find my flashlight, and for a moment I was transported back to Everest in May of 1996. [POSSIBLE USER TO START PIECE] 0535. (ed. note - tone of this is forthright narration, diary-like. Not intimate, soul baring, just simple, unforced and unselfconscious trail notes - the kind of tone I'd like to hit. Very good transit stuff.) (Very quiet - no sense of ambi around him) Retake at 0545 out at 0646 - #2 is better, Then continue story.. .(this feels cleansing and eerie and important - but maybe because I know the story) 0659 - May 10th of 1996, and the first desperate, pleading radio calls from Rob Hall. He was stranded above the Hillary Step at 28,700 feet. His client, Doug Hansen had collapsed. A storm was raging around him and he was calling to his guides to bring more oxygen. 0722 0754 - his guides were already in a fight to save their own lives in that same storm and would be of little use to Rob that night. I finally realized that the voice I was hearing - the voice of the woman - was coming from an adjoining room in the lodge in which I was staying. Her companion - a 55-year old woman - was suffering the first of five epileptic seizures she would suffer that night. I went in the room to see what I could do. And at first I was violently ordered out of the room by the woman's husband who was terrified watching his wife endure these epileptic fits, and... (Notes truncated)
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- crow/raven sp. Corvus sp.
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- Cataloged
- 4 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
- Digitized
- 4 Nov 2009 - David McCartt
- Edited
- 4 Nov 2009 - David McCartt